screenshots / Apache Drums / 1961 Universal Pictures

Argentine film director Hugo Fregonese (Old Shatterhand) helmed this western film starring Stephen McNally (The Stand at Apache River) and Coleen Gray (Arrow in the Dust).

Co-starring Armando Silvestre whose other film credits include Hiawatha (1952), Kings of the Sun (1963) and The Scalphunters (1968).

Based on Siege at Spanish Boot (an original story by novelist/screenwriter Harry Brown) the film's working title was War Dance.

The production filmed on locations in Apple Valley, California and the Mojave Desert, Southwestern United States.

Stephen McNally passed in 1994 at the age of 82.